Broward County commissioners voted unanimously Feb. 12,2008 to amend the county’s Human Rights Act to include anti-discrimination protections for transgender people and pregnant women. The 9-0 vote brings to an end the long struggle to include transgender men and woman as a protected class. The amendment defines the class as “identity, appearance, expression or behavior of an individual, regardless of the individual’s assigned sex at birth.”
Broward is now the third county behind Monroe and Palm Beach in Florida to approve the gender identity protections. Oakland Park, Wilton Manors, Miami Beach and Miami all have municipal ordinances that include gender identity and expression in their laws.
